Twins Quotes - Page 6

• Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Ignorance

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• As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  Ward Churchill

  Patriotism, Towers, World

  "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens" by Ward Churchill, www.kersplebedeb.com. September 12, 2001.

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• On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

  A. S. Byatt

  Stars, Unique, Thinking

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• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  Walt Whitman

  Forever, Vision, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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• Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

  James Wolcott

  Men, Mad, Iconography

  "Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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• If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Use

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• I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'

  Colm Toibin

  Mean, Talking, Feet

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• With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cat, Black, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.82, Penguin Books India

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• We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Jobs, Animal

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Excitement, Thread

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

  Benjamin Carson

  Cutting, Trying, Wire

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• When we look at the settling of America we see a Bible in hand and God. Every Thanksgiving has God and the peacefulness of gratitude. It was important when the Twin Towers were hit and the sorrow with them that the first thing Congress did was sing "God Bless America."

  Bill Cosby

  Gratitude, Hands, America

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So you can't really predict the future, but you can say, "Boy, are those glaciers ever melting." You can measure that, and you can say, "When they're all melted there won't be any Athabasca River," and you can say, "What will happen to the oil sands then?" because you need a lot of water to make that oil. "Where's that going to come from?" You can say things like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Boys, Thinking, Oil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on slavery. You would think 150 years later this had all become pretty historically incontestable. Yet millions continue to contest it in the face of history. Rather the denial of slavery and all its monstrous repercussions defines to one twin America what the country is and means, and therein is the DNA of those "alternative facts" that people believe when they can't stand to believe the truth.

  Steve Erickson

  Country, Believe, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked in a death match, was about slavery. They'll argue it was about economics, and they're right only because one of those economies was a slave economy. They'll argue it was about culture, and they're right only because one of those cultures was a slave culture.

  Steve Erickson

  War, White, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sister, Iowa, Speak

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• I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Brother, Art, Kids

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I can't even imagine having twins.

  Monica Youn

  Imagine, I Can

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Years, Design

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• Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

  Matthea Harvey

  Blue, Long, Suitcases

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Baby, Lost, Horrific

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• The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  War, Leader, Alliances

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• I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

  Ivan Reitman

  Thinking, Fiction, Juniors

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• What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

  David Cameron

  War, Today, Tyranny

  David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thug, Air, Tree

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.47, Penguin

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